I live in Basel since I was born, and I like to play tennis and drum set in my free time. Um, this summer I go to Italy in a sport resort to play tennis there, my, um, with my whole family; my mother and my sister are there riding, so horse riding, and my father plays tennis too. I, I was born on the Bruderholz and went there to school; then I went to gundelingen in the school and then to here, to the gymnasium kirschgarten, pff, I don’t know; pff, my father’s a lawyer, my mother a secretar[y]; my sister goes to school too.

[Translation: OK, um, so just anything? OK, um, afterwards I’m going to friend and I don’t know, watch a movie or just chill out; yes, this evening I’m watching this presentation here; um, yes, pff, I don’t know, um, first I did not want to come here, so I had no motivation as our teacher said that she would be searching volunteers, but then I thought, if I would be in your position I would be annoyed if no one would volunteer, and so I did.]

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